Hon. T. T. Ewing in reply to Mr. G. W. Fuller (N.S.W.), said that an inquiry was to be held into the cause of the recent accident at the rifle range, which ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe Treasurer (Hon. A. H. Peake) delivered his Budget Speech this afternoon. He said the estimated revenue for 1908-9 was as follows:—Ordinary, £2,531,729; ...
Article : 523 wordsThough stocks in London dropped sharply when Bulgaria's action first became known, the general belief that peace would be maintained caused them ...
Article : 2,507 wordsMr. G. E. Kelly. hon. treasurer of the Hobart Catholic Young Men's Society, was on Monday evening, at St. Peter's-hall, made the recipient of an address ...
Article : 398 wordsOwing to the prevailing dearth of employment in England, both the military and naval authorities are doing everything possible to assist in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe High Court judgment to-day in an appeal from the State Full Court concerning the interpretation fo certain by-laws of the borough of Sale ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe committee of the Amateur Athletic Association has considered the circumstances connected with the disqualification of Carpenter, the ...
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Article : 142 wordsWilliam Hawkins, aged 69, an enginedriver, residing at Golden Point, committed suicide to-day by drowning himself. Hawkins had been out of ...
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Article : 105 wordsDr. Cook, an American explorer, traversed Greenland in February, in an attempt to reach the North Pole, and expected to return in June. ...
Article : 115 wordsThree booksellers' assistants at Christchurch were to-day fines 40s. for selling immoral works, consisting of certain novels. ...
Article : 60 wordsFurther evidence was to-day given before the Postal Commission by the chief electrical engineer of the Postal Department (Mr. Hesketh). ...
Article : 556 wordsThe High Court to-day, on reserved judgment, decided that the Victorian Coal Miners' Association are entitled to be registered under the Commonwealth ...
Article : 267 wordsFrederick Duncan Buston, a bicycle maker, of Kew, was ordered by Judge Moule in the Insolvency Court to-day to be detained in the custody of a ...
Article : 89 wordsPrices at to-day's wool sales were very firm, with a hardening tendency. The following prices were obtained for Australian clips:—Winteriga, 6½d.; ...
Article : 50 wordsA constable arrested two boys last night, who confessed to having broken in Mannix's boot shop in George-street on the previous evening. The boys are aged nine ...
Article : 66 wordsThe departmental information on the subject of the frauds which have been perpetrated in connection with stamps on documents of police courts reveal a ...
Article : 89 wordsThe International Refrigeration Congress commenced its sittings at the Sorbonne. Paris, yesterday, and will conclude its deliberations next ...
Article : 285 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, Montagu Livingstone, late treasurer to Messrs. J. C. Williamson and Co., pleaded guilty of having stolen £103 19s. 6d., the ...
Article : 166 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-day attention was given o an important matter which is to be brought forward at the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe hearing of the charge of manslaughter preferred against Leonard Milburn and Gilbert Dolman, railway enginedrivers, arising out of the ...
Article : 126 wordsJust after the midday train had left this morning for Queenstown, one of the lubricating cocks of the engine refused to work, and the train was held up. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Lyell Caledonian Society, are giving a haggis supper to-night, which is well attended, and the proceedings are passing off harmoniously. ...
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Article : 95 wordsImperial Consols, 2½ per cent., £85. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsA lorry and pagnel cart came into collision this morning at the intersection of Wellington and Franklin streets. The pagnel cart was overturned, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 7 Oct 1908, Page 5
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